Mary Skinner, LMHC

Mary Skinner is a Florida LMHC with ten years of clinical experience. She works with adults on anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma and abuse, relationship and family concerns, grief, ADHD, and stress-related problems. She also supports people facing career strain, intimacy issues, sleep problems, and caregiver or first responder stress.

Mary uses a practical, person-centered style. Sessions focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and habits, then trying concrete alternatives. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas alongside acceptance-based and client-centered methods to keep work focused and manageable.

Her background includes influences from Jungian and existential perspectives. That means she sometimes attends to personal meaning, values, and long-standing patterns alongside symptom-focused techniques. The mix allows space for problem solving and for understanding why certain patterns repeat.

In sessions she aims to be straightforward and collaborative. People can expect to talk through specific problems, practice new behavioral experiments, and learn simple strategies to reduce distress between sessions. She also helps people notice values and goals that matter to them.

Mary’s work is aimed at helping adults develop practical coping skills while exploring deeper life questions when useful. She approaches recovery and change as a step-by-step process. To start, she asks people to identify a concrete problem and a small first step toward change.

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